Your actions as written below are a glowing reflection of the kind of people you are.
Just wanted to let you know that you warmed my heart tonight, just when I needed it most.
Teresa Rahn >whimsical61953(a)yahoo.com
Ernie & Connie Lasley <elasley(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
Leslie or Jeff do not say where or under what circumstances the stone was
found. If it was a single grave somewhere, the original location may
never be discovered. My suggestion is to place the stone in the cemetery
with mother and father, and make a note in the cemetery record that the
stone was "found" elsewhere.
Some of you may remember I had a similar situation a little over two years
ago when I "purchased" the marble gravestone of 7 month old Nicholas Marts
at an auction sale. Nicholas died June 29, 1864 and I was sure the stone
came from somewhere other than where the auction sale was. After much
searching I found the parents of Nicholas buried two counties away, and
also learned that the person who had the auction sale once owned a farm in
that county near the cemetery where Nicholas' parents were buried, and in
the same township where census records showed the Marts family lived. The
Historical Society speculated that young Nicholas was buried on the family
farm, and the grave marker was removed to make way for farming. No
information could be found on the location of the gravesite, so it was
agreed by all that the best place for the stone was beside mother and
father in the cemetery. At least little Nicholas' history is perpetuated
even though the stone does not mark the exact spot that he was buried.
At 12:39 PM 05/31/2004 -0500, you wrote:
I had to copy each line of the address separately. Here's where I
ended up.
http://www.geocities.com/fifthgenkempf/KlepferBabyHeadstone.html
It is about "an abandoned gravestone with the name Ivey A. Klepfer, dated
Oct. 18, 1884. I yr, 4m, 1d old daughter of Jesse and S.J. Klepfer" in the
Indianapolis area.
Sharon Howell
sshowell(a)indy.net
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